Publicado por Brand: Huntington Library Press, 2007
ISBN 10: 0873282302 ISBN 13: 9780873282307
Librería: Ergodebooks, Houston, TX, Estados Unidos de America
Softcover. Condición: Good. 1. The five diaries presented here reflect the experiences of five different women, on three of the major westward routes in the middle of the nineteenth centuryacross Panama in 1849, the California or northern route in the 1850s, and the Gila or southern trail in the post-Civil War period. The reader will find neither the sunbonnet saint, striding grimly forward undaunted by the dangers ahead, nor the timorous and reluctant voyager living in dread of Indians and wild beasts. The self-perceptions of these women are as varied as those of male writers, as these diaries vividly illustrate. Women's diaries are comparatively rare, and this book includes five of unusual interest.
Publicado por Brand: The Library Press, 1971
ISBN 10: 0912050047 ISBN 13: 9780912050041
Librería: Ergodebooks, Houston, TX, Estados Unidos de America
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Hardcover. Condición: Good. First Edition. In this book, which The Times of London has called impeccably clear and impeccably fair, six sharp-witted writers take a careful and critical look at the men and movements which produced the Explosion of the New Left in America, Europe, and the Third World. Each of them probes with searching questions in this fair-minded but critical analysis of some of the most controversial ideas of our day. It ultimately raises a large, final question. Can it be (as Milton and Locke centuries ago suggested) that the people who talk most about liberty are frequently its greatest enemies? Contributors include Kenneth Minogue, Franois Bondy, Maurice Cranston, Aristide R. Zolberg, George Feaver and David Martin.
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Publicado por Brand: Huntington Library Press, 1987
ISBN 10: 0873280903 ISBN 13: 9780873280907
Librería: Ergodebooks, Houston, TX, Estados Unidos de America
Softcover. Condición: Good. The Huntington Art Collections are famous for a large group of eighteenth-century British portraits. Around these paintings have been assembled other art objects of the same period, particularly drawings and watercolors, French paintings, French and English sculpture, tapestries, furniture, porcelain, and silver. This handbook offers a complete listing of these works of art, and all others in the Huntington collections. Almost all items are illustrated.
Publicado por Brand: The Library Press, 1973
ISBN 10: 0912050438 ISBN 13: 9780912050430
Librería: Front Cover Books, Denver, CO, Estados Unidos de America
Condición: NEW.
Publicado por Brand: The Library Press, 1972
ISBN 10: 0912050101 ISBN 13: 9780912050102
Librería: Books of the Smoky Mountains, Del Rio, TN, Estados Unidos de America
Condición: very good. Gently used book with ongoing seller support until you're fully satisfied with your purchase.
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Publicado por Brand: Huntington Library Press, 1991
ISBN 10: 0873280032 ISBN 13: 9780873280037
Librería: Ergodebooks, Houston, TX, Estados Unidos de America
Hardcover. Condición: Good. First published in 1944, The Boom of the Eighties is a companion volume to The Cattle on a Thousand Hills: Southern California 1850-80 by Robert Glass Cleland. Boom takes the story forward from the early days of Anglo settlement of the region in the nineteenth century to the period when the immigration explosion created the Southern California of the twentieth century.The 1880s were remarkable in Southern California history for a land boom of unprecedented proportions. In the decades after the Civil War, the great ranchos of Southern California were breaking up, and vine and citrus culture gradually replaced the Spanish-Mexican pastoral economy. The arrival of the Southern Pacific Railroad in 1876 increased immigration, and prospective settlers swarmed in from most of the United States and many countries of Europe.Millions of dollars changed hands in realty transactions: fortunes were made and lost. The city of Los Angeles, nucleus of the boom, increased in size by 500 percent. Many new suburban towns were incorporated. Where once cattle had grazed on the Mexican ranchos, the American citizen built trolley lines, founded banks, and irrigated orange groves.
Publicado por Brand: Christian's Library Press, 2012
ISBN 10: 1880595990 ISBN 13: 9781880595992
Librería: Front Cover Books, Denver, CO, Estados Unidos de America
Condición: NEW.
Publicado por Brand: Huntington Library Press, 1988
ISBN 10: 0873280962 ISBN 13: 9780873280969
Librería: Ergodebooks, Houston, TX, Estados Unidos de America
Softcover. Condición: Good. This book is both an illustrated history of the early years of a now celebrated garden and cultural institution and an intimate and revealing memoir of Henry Edwards Huntington, written by the man who was hired in 1906 to manage the property and landscape the grounds. Included are many historical photographs showing the development of the Huntington estate and the gardens.
Publicado por Brand: The British Library n Oak Knoll Press, 2003
ISBN 10: 0712348298 ISBN 13: 9780712348294
Librería: Ergodebooks, Houston, TX, Estados Unidos de America
Hardcover. Condición: Good. Isaac D'Israeli had so much to say about books. Emanating from his comprehensive world-view and unquenchable curiosity, the essays in this volume demonstrate D'Israeli's 'honest desire of giving useful pleasure ' and above all his conviction that all books form the character of civilisation.
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Publicado por Brand: Published for the Folger Shakespeare Library by the University Press of Virginia, 1976
ISBN 10: 0813905036 ISBN 13: 9780813905037
Librería: Front Cover Books, Denver, CO, Estados Unidos de America
Condición: new.
Publicado por Brand: World Library Press, 1993
ISBN 10: 1884642004 ISBN 13: 9781884642005
Librería: Front Cover Books, Denver, CO, Estados Unidos de America
Condición: new.
Publicado por Brand: World Library Press, 1996
ISBN 10: 1884642098 ISBN 13: 9781884642098
Librería: Front Cover Books, Denver, CO, Estados Unidos de America
Condición: new.
Publicado por Brand: World Library Press, 1990
ISBN 10: 0882433717 ISBN 13: 9780882433714
Librería: Front Cover Books, Denver, CO, Estados Unidos de America
Condición: new.
Publicado por Brand: Library Press, 1972
ISBN 10: 0912050187 ISBN 13: 9780912050188
Librería: Front Cover Books, Denver, CO, Estados Unidos de America
Condición: new.
Publicado por Brand: Library Press, 1971
ISBN 10: 091205011X ISBN 13: 9780912050119
Librería: Front Cover Books, Denver, CO, Estados Unidos de America
Condición: NEW.
Publicado por Brand: Library Press, 1971
ISBN 10: 0912050160 ISBN 13: 9780912050164
Librería: Front Cover Books, Denver, CO, Estados Unidos de America
Condición: NEW.
Publicado por Brand: University of Oklahoma Press- the Western Frontier Library, 2000
ISBN 10: 0806132272 ISBN 13: 9780806132273
Librería: Front Cover Books, Denver, CO, Estados Unidos de America
Condición: new.
Publicado por Brand: London : British Library ; New Castle, DE : Oak Knoll Press, 2000
ISBN 10: 0712347267 ISBN 13: 9780712347266
Librería: Front Cover Books, Denver, CO, Estados Unidos de America
Condición: new.